Liverpool co-owners suffer fresh high court defeat

The sale of Liverpool cleared another hurdle on Thursday when the club's chief creditors secured a High Court injunction to restrain the ruling of a Texas district court that put a temporary hold on the sale.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) had won a ruling on Wednesday allowing them to sell the club to New England Sports Ventures (NESV) before the club's current owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks secured the restraining order in a Dallas Court.

The judge in Thursday's hearing in London strongly condemned Hicks and Gillett for taking 'unconscionable' action in the U.S. courts to try to block the sale of the club.